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According to the number analyzers, Joe Biden (77) of the Democrats has surpassed the magic number: 270 voters.
The Decision Desk announces Joe Biden as the winner of Pennsylvania after taking the lead in the state.
Thus, they also proclaim Biden the winner of the presidential elections and the next president of the United States.
– Takes charge of the crisis
On January 20, the job of the president of the United States will begin for the next four years, a job that will not be easy at all, according to US expert and principal investigator Svein Melby of the Department of Defense Studies.
Decision table
Decision Desk delivers its results and analysis to several internationally recognized media outlets in this year’s election, including The Economist, Reuters, Axios and Dagbladet. The numbers are not finished in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia and North Carolina, but as a winner in Pennsylvania, Biden still has enough voters to win.
– The country is affected by the corona pandemic, which is a total crisis and also causes economic problems. Politically, the country is divided across the board and this election has not improved the situation. This will be heavy work, Melby tells Dagbladet.
“The mob in the streets”
American expert Hilmar Mjelde of the Norce research institute believes that the new president faces three major challenges, all of which are equally difficult:
Take control of the management of the pandemic, calm the mood in the country and regain the leadership of the United States in the world.
“Democracy is eroding under Trump and the mafia is taking to the streets. The new president must calm the spirits, otherwise the level of conflict in the population may escalate,” Mjelde writes in an email to Dagbladet.
He believes that only Biden can meet the great challenges the country now faces.
“Biden has it, Trump doesn’t have it,” Mjelde writes.
Joe Biden announced winner
– Patch up
Svein Melby also believes that in the past four years in particular, great contradictions have emerged among the American people.
– It will be a huge task to mend this country so that the political system can begin to function and not end in disputes. It will be a daunting task and one should have no illusions that this will change overnight, says Melby.
– Where to start?
– The president should work to find issues that members of Congress can agree on and build on that from there. It will not be easy, because there are bitter and harsh contradictions here, says Melby.
“Divided States of America”
Melby is supported by Eirik Løkke, an American expert and advisor to Cevita.
– The United States is more divided than in a long time. It is a deeply divided “divided states of America”, says Løkke.
– It really only remains to see how divided and how deep wounds the country has received, he continues.
Despite the injuries and the split, Hilmar Mjelde still believes that the next president will be able to do a part with the help of the executive branch, that is, orders that he himself can issue.
“This is how all presidents have ruled for the past 40 years. Especially from and including Bill Clinton, “Mjelde writes.
In the middle of a pandemic
But the country is not only divided, it is also in the midst of a pandemic. On Thursday of this week, 9,801,355 confirmed corona cases and 239,829 corona-related deaths were registered in the country.
– The pandemic is the most important immediate political problem to be addressed by the next president of the country, and there are many challenges here, says Løkke.
– A good start to tackling this huge problem is talking to and listening to scientists, and then introducing policy after that, he continues.
Svein Melby believes that the United States needs a national strategy to deal with the pandemic.
– Active management from above is required, where so far it has largely failed, he says, and continues:
– Trump has mitigated the danger of the virus and has not assumed the necessary leadership responsibility, so this will not be an easy task.
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– Deadly things
– The virus has nothing to do with me. It’s not my fault. It is China that released the virus, Trump said earlier this fall.
Joe Biden has repeatedly criticized Trump for his handling of the crown
– Donald Trump is not responsible for the corona virus. But he is responsible for not preparing the nation to respond, he said on his Twitter account.
The use of masks has also been a hot topic, and many have thought that it should be imposed on everyone.
In the book written by Bob Woodward, it was revealed this fall how President Donald Trump deliberately toned down mortality from the coronavirus.
Woodward is one of the journalists behind the legendary Watergate revelation that forced President Nixon to leave.
– Leadership absent
Already on February 7 of this year, Trump told the journalist:
– They are mortal things.
Still, he didn’t sound the alarm.
Of the two presidential candidates, Hilmar Mjelde believes that only Biden can take control at the national level in handling the pandemic.
“National leadership has been absent under Trump, who has left the pandemic to the states,” he wrote to Dagbladet.
Nor is it said that Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infection expert, was happy with the president’s handling of the virus. He is reported to have told a colleague that “Trump only cares about being re-elected.”
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– the United States a “banana republic”
Since 2016, Trump has pulled the United States out of, among other things, the Paris Agreement, the WHO, and the Iran nuclear deal.
Svein Melby believes that the result of the regular elections shows that the United States has changed. He also believes that this applies to international politics.
– I think that the vast majority in the United States is tired of the leadership role that the United States has had internationally and wants less commitment.
– Internationally, it will be important to correct the impression that the rest of the world now has of the United States. Printing has completely dropped and the president must work to dispel the rumor that the country has become a “banana republic.” Restoring the state of the world will be very important, says Løkke.
Hilmar Mjelde writes that Trump has “systematically undermined the multilateral world order that has ensured peace in our part of the world since 1945.”
Biden breaks Obama’s record
– This is how democracies cope
The conflicts during what is listed in the history books as perhaps the most dramatic presidential election in American history, during the vote counting peaked with statements previously unthinkable for a sitting president:
– This is a huge scam against our nation. We want the law to be applied correctly. We will go to the Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop, Trump said on the night of November 4.
This was long before the earl could give an answer as to who would win.
Mjelde believes that this is destructive, because it reinforces popular mistrust of democratic institutions.
“Many will not accept defeat. This is how democracies weather, ”he writes to Dagbladet.
– Political desert
With his statements, and completely without proof, President Donald Trump called the American electoral system, for which he is ultimately responsible, as incapable of dealing with fraud attempts.
The remarks were so surprising that even supporters like Trump’s adviser and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie distanced themselves.
Hilmar Mjelde responds as follows if all the noise during the elections will make or break the Republican Party:
“The party must rebuild without repelling the many new voters that Trump has, after all, brought into the party. But American parties have no leader as long as they do not have the president, so the party will wander the political wilderness for a few years. .
Here they fight for victory
Just congratulations
While Trump wanted to continue his political agenda of “making America great again,” Joe Biden said Wednesday that he wants to be the president of all Americans.
Succeeding in this will not be easy, says Eirik Løkke in Cevita.
– Biden is an old school politician, which may be in his favor. He has worked well with Republicans before, which is crucial if he wants to accomplish something and get the policy implemented in the country.
– What should you do to achieve such collaboration?
– Must behave differently from Donald Trump. It should address everyone and not behave in a divisive way, says Løkke.
– Biden’s challenge may be that many Republicans will not like him just because he is a Democrat, continues Løkke.
Among these is likely Trump, who few believe will follow the tradition of calling out and congratulating his rival if Biden becomes the ultimate winner.
